Re: [Openvpn-devel] ovpn daemon not seeing my plugin thread...

2010-06-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
Perfect! The following worked: I defined openvpn_plugin_select_initialization_point_v1() to return OPENVPN_PLUGIN_INIT_POST_DAEMON and now it all works since the plugin invocation now gets delayed to be after the daemon thread starts up. Thanks a lot, Vineet On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:58 AM, chant

Re: [Openvpn-devel] ovpn daemon not seeing my plugin thread...

2010-06-24 Thread chantra
> The reason is obviously the fact that the thread-creation occurred > *before* the daemon() call (that forked off a child which has no way > of inheriting a copy of that thread). > So does this mean then that the ovpn daemon infrastructure will only > work with plugins that don't do threading of t

[Openvpn-devel] ovpn daemon not seeing my plugin thread...

2010-06-24 Thread Vineet Kumar
Hi, I am writing a plugin that creates a thread at plugin-open time. But when I start ovpn as a daemon the ovpn code has no knowledge of that thread. The reason is obviously the fact that the thread-creation occurred *before* the daemon() call (that forked off a child which has no way of inheritin